New 1.5 litre EcoBoost 3-cyl debuts on Ford Mondeo

Ford introduced its fifth-generation Mondeo in China earlier in the week, and while the advent of the Blue Oval’s flagship in the republic isn’t big news, the announcement of what powers it is – a 1.5 litre EcoBoost engine makes its debut on the car, making the Ford Mondeo the first car in its segment to be powered by an engine of such displacement.

The 1.5 litre is a three-cylinder derivative of the 1.0 litre EcoBoost unit, and is the fifth and latest member to join Ford’s global family of EcoBoost turbocharged engines, which also includes 1.6 and 2.0 litre four-cylinder units as well as a 3.5 litre V6 variant, which is available in two output tunes.

It’s at the upper threshold of the three-pot’s design displacement limit, which has a maximum capacity of 500 cc per cylinder. The 1.5 litre EcoBoost offers 177 hp at 6,000 rpm and peak torque of 240 Nm from 1,500 to 4,500 rpm. The unit includes an integrated intake manifold and water-cooled charge air cooler, which allows for a more efficient feed of air into the engine, as well as a clutch-controlled water pump.

Other than the new 1.5 litre job, the Mondeo will also get the 2.0 litre EcoBoost unit for the Chinese market, though the unit has a slightly detuned power output of 228 hp at 5,500 rpm and 340 Nm at 4,000 rpm.

Anthony Lim believes that nothing is better than a good smoke and a car with character, with good handling aspects being top of the prize heap. Having spent more than a decade and a half with an English tabloid daily never being able to grasp the meaning of brevity or being succinct, he wags his tail furiously at the idea of waffling - in greater detail - about cars and all their intrinsic peculiarities here.

Sime Darby will never be allowed to bring this engine in. Despite being a GLC, Syed Mokhtar’s DRB hicom and Proton are more important. Yes, amongst cronies, there are rankings as well. Some are more important than others. But of course, the least important is the rakyat. Let the rakyat suffer with less fuel efficient cars!

Ford can come out with best cars but our local Ford is so lembap. Yes, you have to wait 3 months for most parts. And that is the truth. Unless you got a few cars at home, be careful. If the part that kongs makes your car undrivable, you have to park your car in the workshop or house for 3 months

what do you want dude? people give good tech you say too complex. People give NA no vvt engine i guess you’ll said ancient and rubbish. Seriously? WE should ask the mechanics go to learn how, not the other way round.

This is the funniest comment for a long time. I suppose the car you drive does not have an ECU. That’s complex as well. How about ABS? We want sound and thinking comments here. Yours does not fall into this category.

I think cars with highly refined and advanced technologies and safety features like this are not meant for people who buy cars with the next owner in mind… if you think about resale value, you can’t be thinking of enjoying the car itself because it is mutually exclusive… when friends ajak roadtrip pun takmau because takmau mileage naik tinggi, because takut resale value jatuh…

Sam, for sure your almighty Camry will last forever bcos even the newest coming models ACV60, ACV70,ACV80 will be still using the same NA engine matching with the 4 speeder auto. Even the mechanics under the coconut tree also can repair your Camry as the same engine has been fixed under the hood for more than a decade.

Hi Sam, I drive a Camry. Why? Because of lower cost of maintenance. When a car with more advanced design and technology whizzes past me, I am reminded that people make different choices for different reasons. Learn to appreciate other cars for reasons other than just resale value.

However Mazda did develop a modern engine with larger displacement, and the results are good. It is actually pretty efficient, in tests it did better than similar offers from VW/Skoda (using their TSI engines).

Then again, the Ford 3 cylinders were apparently designed from the ground up to be turbocharged and modern, so they could directly address issues introduced by using a 3 cylinder and a turbo (unlike VW or Proton who added a turbo, tweaked it here and there and called it a day). We shall see how it performs.

Skyactiv achieve what turbo engine can do without turbo. If skyactiv slapped on a turbo, it definitely the best. In the end, no one’s better.
N/A = consume more fuel, less headache, possible workout on it yourself.
Complicated German Forced Induction = More power, less fuel, more headache, charged kao kao by some “expert” mechanic, work it out yourself isn’t that possible.
So, decide yourself.

WOW!!!. It has a lil trace of the Aston Martin front grill which looks absolutely fantastic and I’m pretty sure that this is the only car that can compete with Mazda 6 for now. Honda, Toyota, Hyundai, and Kia gotta come up with something better or as good as these two.

That article is bullsh*t. It just want to inflame on the small turbocharge cars.

I tell you one thing. Koenigsegg Agera R with 5.0 V8 weighs only at 1200kg and the engine block weigh at 140kg. Whereas for Buggati Veyron, 8.0 W16 engine weighs at 2000kg. The engine itself is heavy.

Why Koenigsegg don’t use big V12 engine. Their answer is simple, V12 engine add weights and doesn’t give advantages to the top speed and accelerations.

Oil guzzling V8 vs a 1.0 3 cylinder engine with the same output horsepower. It’s not worth it. Power to weight ratio is important. How the power is put the ground and the weight to balance off the hp. That’s why Mazda create Skyactiv Chassis or Ford create EcoBoost engine or Fiat create 2 cylinder TwinAir engine.
Because of power to weight ratio.

The main point of mondeo with small engine is because of fuel consumption not top speed and acceleration and it fails to deliver. Who cares about super cars? They are impractical and only serve few purposes. Comparing a super car with an everyday car? You must be outright smart.

it’s strange how people kept saying that maintenance is a big issue… this car won’t come to malaysian soils for some time but when it does and people start buying it, in a few months, it is still a new car… and you don’t send your new car to pomens cause it is still under warranty… after 3-5 years there would be a newer car and logically by then there would be pomens who can work with complicated engines such as these… and for those who kept yapping about their toyotas being easy to fix and everything… do tell me how new your engine is… do tell me how the engines in your camry or vios is a brand new engine developed just a year before it was fitted in your cars…

the car sort of looks like Audi A7. Also it is good for you all to know that Ford never sell engine to any other OEM if they intend to do mass production as they are considered as their competitor. only if one has very low volume production they will assist.

Toyota is not cheap if you send it back to dealer for fixing, my friends who bought Toyota got a slap at their face when the repair bill came up to be rm2-3k. For their 4-6 yrs old car, Toyota cheap? Lol!

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